HF2271 Summary: Performance-Based Teacher Pay System

• Allows school boards and teacher unions to jointly develop performance-based pay systems that link teacher compensation to student learning outcomes, effective for the 2015-2016 school year and later.

• Establishes that student growth data must determine 35 percent of teacher evaluation results, measured through valid assessments aligned with state and local academic standards.

• Creates "evaluation and performance revenue" providing $260 per pupil for districts and charter schools implementing approved performance pay plans, with 65 percent designated as base aid to all districts.

• Requires performance pay systems to include career advancement options allowing teachers to maintain primary instructional roles while facilitating professional development for peers.

• Permits school boards and teachers to reopen collective bargaining agreements specifically to negotiate performance pay systems; contracts may be for two or four years rather than the standard contract terms.